GIS day 2012

The 2012 edition of GIS day was a great success! Thank you to all our speakers, our poster presenters, volunteers, and participants.

See you next year!

The GIC team.

Edition 2012 program

The GIC, in collaboration with the Department of Geography, is organizing GIS day at McGill for 2012. We would like to invite the McGill community to participate in activities where GIS and remote sensing will be discovered, explained … and celebrated ! The GIC team will also take this occasion to host the official opening of this new resource at McGill.

What? GIS day 2012 and Grand Opening of the GIC

When?from 12:30 to 6pm on November 14th, 2012

Where?Burnside Hall (meet up point at the GIC)

For Who?Anybody who is interested in GIS and RS research

Schedule

12:30 to 14:00

MUGS Discovery Activity, GIC public area

MUGS invites you to follow them in the discovery of GIS through a series of activity related to GIS. Meet up at the GIC front desk.

Projects of current and past students will be displayed via posters and other media around the GIC.

12:30 to 18:00

Poster Session, GIC Public area

Projects of current and past students will be displayed via posters and other media around the GIC.

Consult the Poster abstracts of the project presented in the 2012 edition of GIS day.

14:00 to 16:30

Speaker session (Room 426)

14:00 Keynote Speaker : Dr. George Leblanc

National Research Council Canada – Flight Research Laboratory

“Geographic Information Systems: A Modern Day Revolution”

14:30 Dr. Renee Sieber

McGill School of Environment and Dept. of Geography, McGill University

“Shifting the GIS Paradigm with the Geospatial Web 2.0 ”

14:50 Dr. Magaret Kalacska

Dept. of Geography, McGill University

“Remote detection of clandestine graves using hyperspectral data”

15:10 Dr. André Costopoulos

Dept. Anthropology, McGill University

“Imaginary landscapes for real science: the role of GIS in agent-based computer simulation studies”

15:30 Dr. J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora

Dept. of Geography, McGill University

“MAC13: Mission Airborne Carbon 2013”

15:50Presentation by ESRI Canada

16:10 Pannel Discussion

16:45 to 18:00

GIC opening ceremony, GIC room 511

Welcoming and Opening speech by Dr.Tim Moore, Chair of the Geography Department, and Dr. Pablo Arroyo, Director of the GIC.

Come join us to visit our transformed facilities, to explore the innovative possibilities, and to celebrate the opening of the new Geographic Information Centre. This event is followed by a wine and cheese.

Job Postings

none at the moment

Looking for GIS data?

For GIS data and maps please refer to the library’s GIS guide at GIS Guide.The McGill Library holds a significant collection of maps, atlases, air photos, satellites imagery, and data covering the greater Montreal region, the province of Quebec, Canada, and the rest of the world. The GIS guide provides an easy way to access McGill's geospatial data collections, as well as open GIS data resources. The data is organised into categories for easy searching. To request licensed data that is not directly available from the library website, please fill in the data request form at Data Request